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  • shared whiteboard

    allows two or more people to view and draw on a shared drawing surface e…

  • competitive user testing

    a comparison of 2 or more user interfaces from competitive products u…

  • backward compatibility

    designing software to work with previous versions of itself, e.g. by…

  • web-safe color palette

    a set of 216 colors which display correctly on 8-bit monitors for both…

  • CAUSE

    computer-aided usability engineering; tools to automate usabilit…

  • shopping cart

    a common metaphor used in web-based ordering systems. Users search f…

  • design rationale

    the reasoning that leads to design decisions. Documenting design ra…

  • cognitive dimensions

    T.R.G. Green’s design principles for notations & programmin…